Here was a precedent.
Sugar Express . . . I’ve seen and posted about you before here, here, and in other places.
Arabian Sea–where’s Sea Robin, previously on this route?– stood by with the barge while
another–Jonathan–was offloaded over at the ASR Group facility in Yonkers. ASR Group is the contemporary name for a series of companies and mergers going back to the 18th century.
As crew on the barge watch, clamshells of sugar lift from the hold. See the crane operator in the blue t-shirt?
My guess . . . 10 tons per scoop?
Click here for more info on dry barge barge Jonathan, identical dimensions to Sugar Express.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
My conjecture is that some of this sugar comes from operations owned by the Fanjul family.
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November 5, 2017 at 5:46 pm
Les Sonnenmark
Using the draft marks for scale, I calculated the usable volume of the clamshell as about 150 cu ft, and the contents may be stacked up a little higher at the center. Raw sugar weighs about 55 lb per cu ft, so one bucketful might be about 5 short tons.
November 7, 2017 at 5:14 pm
ws
This is the good stuff, cane sugar, and not the HFCS High Fructose Corn Syrup..
November 8, 2017 at 11:17 pm
Peter Eagleton
The cranes they are using are fairly new. Many years ago, I machined carbon brushes for the old cranes that they used. The Marathon electric motors used in them were so old, parts could no longer be acquired for them. I made new brushes for the motors on my lathe/mill. I believe the old cranes were from the WW2 era. It was interesting going through the old workings of the original cranes. My father had made a painting of the Dominoes factory, showing the very cranes i worked on. i didn’t discover this until I told him what i was working on.
December 19, 2021 at 3:41 pm
vivian
My Grandpa White worked as the crane operator at the sugar factory in Missoula, Montana in the 1940’s to 1966. His job was to unload the sugar beets from the boxcars. The sugar beets were grown in Montana. It was a great part of the 100 Mile Diet Food Plan, eh? Elk, beef, corn, potatoes, tomatoes and huckleberries. Grandpa also was called upon to help build the Fox Theatre in Missoula, and a few other structures needing a crane operator. He worked on the Fort Peck Dam in north central Montana in the 1930’s.
December 19, 2021 at 3:51 pm
tugster
Vivian– Does that mean you have fabulous family photos of yr Grandpa doing all those amazing things?